First off... I know how to get to appdata, I have made it so that the folder is not-hidden.
My problem is not that the files were deleted, but that they wont show up in windows explorer. I've never had this happen before.
I was playing minecraft in the snapshot, and testing out textures I was drawing with gimp.
A storm rolled in and there was a lot of close lightning, so I closed everything out and shut the computer off.
After the storm was gone I turned on my computer and clicked to open the minecraft launcher, It didn't load and all it said was that it was attempting to download something. I was not connected to the internet so I knew it wouldn't work, so I closed it out, and tried to connect to the internet. I next went to open up my texturepack folder to continue editing my pictures. At first the .minecraft folder wasn't even showing up, but when it did I opened it up and this is basically* what I saw:
*the magic folder was not there
I decided it probably would take a while for files to load on my computer or something so I played a few levels of Bro Force, and then returned to check it out. It was still the same. I checked to see if I could open my .png files with gimp, and I could. I opened one and saw that inside of gimp, I could view all of the files inside of .minecraft:
I decided to try restarting my computer, and did so. Once done it was still the same, so I tried opening it up with magic launcher. When I opened it up, it was on default setting, and when I checked what minecraft jar it was using it said "not found". (That's when the magic folder appeared in the minecraft folder on the windows explorer.) I tried opening winrar to view the files, but it showed them the same as the windows explorer did.
My question is how can I ensure that running the minecraft launcher (now that i have internet connection) wont overwrite all of these files, thus deleting all of my files?
I'm perfectly fine with it if theres a way to copy all of the files, re-install minecraft, then manually placing them into the .minecraft folder, but I don't know how I would do that. Another thing thats strange is that instead of "Scott" in the windows explorer it says "kids account" (which is the name of the account I'm on.) I don't think it normally says that. But if I click to change it to "Scott", it pops up showing that it is under "C:\Users\Scott\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft"
I'm also not sure why it did this to only the .minecraft folder, as my .technic folder is perfectly fine.
It looks to me like the .minecraft folder was moved into the .technic folder. So now the original .minecraft folder is located at "C:\Users\Scott\AppData\Roaming\.technic\.minecraft".
I'm not sure if that is another .minecraft folder that was intentionally made. If not, then move that .minecraft folder back into "C:\Users\Scott\AppData\Roaming".
I just found out what happened.. but am still puzzled. All of my .minecraft files were moved inside of .technic ... I dont know whay but ill try moving them back, after backing them up.
It looks to me like the .minecraft folder was moved into the .technic folder. So now the .minecraft folder is located at "C:\Users\Scott\AppData\Roaming\.technic\.minecraft".
I'm not sure if that is another .minecraft folder that was intentionally made. If not, then move that .minecraft folder back into "C:\Users\Scott\AppData\Roaming".
Lol thanks, I had just figured that out.
Has this ever happened to anyone else? Its not like I manually moved them... hmm...
I have a similar problem, my technic launcher recently broke, and I haven't been able to fix it since. I started by completely uninstalling and reinstalling the program, or I think that I did. There is no sight of the .technic folder, and I checked in the .minecraft folder. I thought my original problem was that I was missing the .jar file (which I was) So I downloaded that, and still, nothing. Can you guys help :I
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My problem is not that the files were deleted, but that they wont show up in windows explorer. I've never had this happen before.
I was playing minecraft in the snapshot, and testing out textures I was drawing with gimp.
A storm rolled in and there was a lot of close lightning, so I closed everything out and shut the computer off.
After the storm was gone I turned on my computer and clicked to open the minecraft launcher, It didn't load and all it said was that it was attempting to download something. I was not connected to the internet so I knew it wouldn't work, so I closed it out, and tried to connect to the internet. I next went to open up my texturepack folder to continue editing my pictures. At first the .minecraft folder wasn't even showing up, but when it did I opened it up and this is basically* what I saw:
*the magic folder was not there
I decided it probably would take a while for files to load on my computer or something so I played a few levels of Bro Force, and then returned to check it out. It was still the same. I checked to see if I could open my .png files with gimp, and I could. I opened one and saw that inside of gimp, I could view all of the files inside of .minecraft:
I decided to try restarting my computer, and did so. Once done it was still the same, so I tried opening it up with magic launcher. When I opened it up, it was on default setting, and when I checked what minecraft jar it was using it said "not found". (That's when the magic folder appeared in the minecraft folder on the windows explorer.) I tried opening winrar to view the files, but it showed them the same as the windows explorer did.
My question is how can I ensure that running the minecraft launcher (now that i have internet connection) wont overwrite all of these files, thus deleting all of my files?
I'm perfectly fine with it if theres a way to copy all of the files, re-install minecraft, then manually placing them into the .minecraft folder, but I don't know how I would do that. Another thing thats strange is that instead of "Scott" in the windows explorer it says "kids account" (which is the name of the account I'm on.) I don't think it normally says that. But if I click to change it to "Scott", it pops up showing that it is under "C:\Users\Scott\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft"
I'm also not sure why it did this to only the .minecraft folder, as my .technic folder is perfectly fine.
Please help!
Thanks!
-Pecola1
I'm not sure if that is another .minecraft folder that was intentionally made. If not, then move that .minecraft folder back into "C:\Users\Scott\AppData\Roaming".
Lol thanks, I had just figured that out.
Has this ever happened to anyone else? Its not like I manually moved them... hmm...